Man vs Wild

This episode features Will Ferrell in a special titled Men vs. Wild where Ferrell tags along with Bear as they journey through the frozen wilderness of Sweden. The episode is a tie-in to help promote Ferrells new movie Land of the Lost.

Bear Grylls is dropped by a helicopter into the Moab Utah Desert in 110 degree temperatures with nothing but a knife a canteen and a flint. He battles dehydration by soaking his headgear a t-shirt in urine and eats two raven eggs one raw. Lastly Bear demonstrates how to escape from quicksand before swimming across the Colorado River. Bear shows how to use the flow of rivers as tools to find civilization.

Bear parachutes into the Costa Rican Rainforest on the Osa Peninsula but continues with only his knife and a canteen. He climbs down a waterfall using a vine and floats down a river to the ocean on a raft he crafts out of balsawood to demonstrate how someone lost in the jungle can make it to civilization. He encounters snakes mosquitoes and dangerous river currents.

Bear parachutes into the French Alps with a knife and canteen a cup and a flint to make fire taking the parachute with him. He demonstrates how to survive falling into a frozen lake and how to build a snow shelter. He also eats maggots and uses them to catch a trout.

Bear is dropped by helicopter at the top of Mount Kilauea. He traverses lava fields which catch his boots on fire then heads into the jungles of Hawaii. Bear uses a kukui nut torch to explore a lava tube and find water then uses smoke to placate a bee hive and get honey.

Bear parachutes into the Sierra Nevadas equipped with a knife and a canteen. He attempts to tame a wild horse and eats a live snake. He brushes his teeth with a leaf and travels down a river using a raft held together by a grapevine.

Bear is kicked out by helicopter into the water near a desert island in the Pacific Ocean. He demonstrates long distance swimming shelter building and coconut harvesting. Bear builds a bamboo raft to look for ships and is surrounded by tiger sharks.

Bear gets dropped in the middle of the Rocky Mountain ranges and must find his way to civilization. On his way out he must evade the danger of grizzly bears jump 30 feet into a river and abseil down a cliff.